Category: Standard-Essential Patents
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InterDigital’s Brazilian double whammy against Disney: preliminary (but merits-based) injunction over two streaming patents
InterDigital’s merits-based two-patent injunction is harder to get stayed or overturned than most Brazilian patent PIs.
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Nokia appeals UK order to disclose SEP contracts to Acer, ASUS, Hisense lawyers, raising procedural issues
Nokia is asking the England & Wales Court of Appeal for an emergency stay of a disclosure order by Mr Justice Mellor. Nokia raises fundamental procedural issues.
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Xiaomi seeks UK FRAND ruling in ASUS, Innovative Sonic SEP dispute
Xiaomi has filed a FRAND suit against ASUSTeK and its affiliate Innovative Sonic in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales, in response to suits they filed against it in the UPC and Germany.
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TP-Link’s UK lawsuit against Huawei appears uneconomical: widely accepted pool option and potential German blowback
TP-Link filed a UK lawsuit against Huawei, but the terms of the Sisvel WiFi 6 pool through which those patents are available have been widely accepted and German courts won’t let UK courts torpedo their cases.
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Acer seeking counterleverage against Nokia through “threat letters” in U.S. despite highly asymmetric SEP portfolios and sales volumes: DJ action
Acer sent “threat letters” to U.S. telecommunications carriers using Nokia equipment, provoking a declaratory judgment complaint.
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Dolby seeking SEP-based preliminary injunction against Roku as Munich I Regional Court outpaces UPC’s Munich LD by wide margin
Roku is coming under pressure in the Munich I Regional Court with a January 2026 trial date and a SEP-based preliminary injunction motion, but nothing has happened in the UPC.
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BREAKING: Nokia sues Paramount over video streaming patents in U.S. and Brazil, uses winning patents from Amazon ITC dispute
Nokia is serious about collecting video codec patent royalties from streamers. Its new enforcement action against Paramount is the latest example.
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Podcast: interview with Dr. Bowman Heiden on role of SEPs in economics, policy intervention, cultivating a transatlantic IP career
Dr. Bowman Heiden is the Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law. …